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Legacy Cancer Institute
Annual Report 2010
Women’s Cancers

The year 2010 was a banner year at Legacy Cancer Services. So many major accomplish­ments occurred during the past year that it is really hard to know where to begin. This year we took the care for women with cancer to a new level. The physicians and staff have such a deep commit­ment to offering our patients the highest quality of care in a compassionate fashion and you will feel the passion borne out as you read this annual report. We chose to look at all our female cancers so that we could paint the beautiful Rembrandt that is Legacy cancer care — from diagnosis to survivorship. View the report

Therapeutic gardens help renew the body and spirit at Legacy Health System

Teresia Hazen, horticultural therapist with Legacy Health System, works with patient Pat McKenzie in the Stenzel Healing Garden at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in Northwest Portland. Horticultural therapy is part of McKenzie’s therapy as she undergoes rehabilitation for a spinal cord injury. read the entire article

Tea Docents of Chado-En and Ceres Community Project Partner to Sow Seeds of The Wellness Gardens

Senior Shinto priest Rev. Koichi Barrish will conduct a blessing and purification ceremony for garden site on Aug. 27.

BODEGA BAY, Calif., Aug. 16, 2011— Wellness should be a way of life, sown and grown as tenderly and conscientiously as the most delicate of gardens. That’s why Nozomu (Nez) Tokugawa and Donna Tokugawa, co-founders of Chado-En (http://www.chadoen.com), have been planting the roots for the non-profit The Wellness Gardens along with a new partner, Ceres Community Project.

As importers of fine Asian teas, Chado-En has always followed a broader mission to spur and sustain healing, wellbeing and peace. Likewise, Ceres Community Project, an award-winning nonprofit based in California’s Sonoma Valley, works
tirelessly to restore local, organic read more…